Labor History Today: Where’s our Forty Acres And A Mule?
Chris Garlock | Published on 11/18/2025
Where’s our Forty Acres And A Mule?
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Historian and former UAW organizer Rudi Batzell joins America’s Workforce Union Podcast to explain how the failure of land reform after slavery — and employers’ use of racial division and strikebreaking — shaped the early U.S. labor movement. From “40 acres and a mule” to the CIO, Batzell shows how race and class remain inseparable in American labor history.
And on Labor History in 2:00: Justice for Janitors.
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